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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	evil_a	good_a	sin_n	3,208	5	4.9732	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90864	Spiritual flovvers for saints and sinners. Gathered out of the garden of the sacred scriptures, and writings of men famous in their generations. / By Robert Port minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.	Port, Robert, b. 1617 or 18.	1655 (1655)	Wing P2981; Thomason E1548_2; ESTC R209461	39,839	195

you or else you are utterly lost and undone everlastingly Luke 19. 10. 3. Gods free and general offer of Christ to any that will take him by faith Iohn 3. 16. manifold promises to this purpose The ground of all Gods offers and donations of Christ being free Grace rich mercy underserved love Ephes 2. 4. to 8. Tit. 3. 4. to 7. 4. Christs sweet and gracious invitation of such to come to him as are weary of sin Matt. 11. 28. to buy as have no money no righteousness to commend them to Christ Isa 55. 1. no worth or desert in themselves 5. As sinfull vile wretches as you are have been bought of Christ and found in Christ see 1 Cor. 9. 9. to 12. 1 Tim. 1. 13. Phil. 3. 7. to 10. why may not you the more clearly you discern upon what grounds you take Christ the more clear is your title to Christ III. By surveying and observing in what manner you take Christ dayly and this by five resolves as 1. Whether you do wholly renounce all opinion and conceit of your own righteousness and desert Matt. 8. 34. Phil. 3. 7 to 10. So that you come to Christ empty of your self very vile yea nothing in your own eyes unworthy to receive Christ 2. Whether you lay hold on Christ alone with an empty hand of faith joyning nothing with Christ in the matter of salvation 3. Whether you find the Father drawing your heart after Christ Iohn 6. 44. in hungring panting desires that will never be satisfied without Christ So that the stream both of your judgment Phil. 37. 8. and affections 1 Cor. 2 2. Gal. 6. 14. run towards Christ 4. Whether you take Christ as a Lord to rule you as a Jesus to save you Col. 2. 6. As one that is all to your all your wisdom your righteousness your sanctification and redemdemption 1 Cor. 1. 30. your spiritual food Iohn 6. 36. Raiment Rom. 13. 14. Strength Phil. 4. 13. Life Col. 3. 3. Gal. 2 10. 5. Whether you seek and wait for Christ out of the sence of your spiritual penury sacraments prayer meditation conference not as they are your own works of sanctification but as they are Gods ordinances appointed of purpose for the manifestation communication of Christ to the soul frequent perusal hereof will clear to you your manner of taking Christ which wil evidence to you your right in Christ CHAP. III. LAbour to draw and derive from Christ by the pulling attractive force of faith ability sufficient for the day I. To perform all duties Phil 4. 12. II. To exercise all the graces 2 Cor. 3. 5 III. To resist and overthrow all temptations and corruptions Rom. 8. 37. IIII. To undergo all the trials afflictions thereof Phil. 4. 13. 2 Cor. 3. 5. Iohn 1. 16. Thus make your provision of grace and strength from Christ every morning fetch so much as you have occasion to use all the day long yea and upon all occasions that fall out in the day Go to Christ still for the wisdom that must direct you for the holiness that must character you for the souldier that must bear them if they be crosses for that strength that must resist them if they be temptations for ability to performe them if they be duties To this end act your faith dayly in the promises of grace and strength as Iohn 1. 16. Ezek. 36. 26 27. Isa 44. 3 Zack 10 12. which are both security given you by God that you shall receive grace and conduit-pipes or instruments of conveying the same from Christ unto you Loe this is the manner to do all in the strength of Christ and to take forth a great deal of Christ into the soul that not you but Christ may live in you Gal. 2. 20. CHAP. IV. Perform daily duties in family and closet especially these three Prayer Meditation Reading all with serious affection heat of affection deligence and delight Ier. 48. 10. Mal. 1. 14. 2 Chron. 21. 24. these three waies I. Watch to these duties H. E. keep thy heart in a good frame for them Ephes 6. 18. undefiled with sin untainted with the world II. Take the fittest time for the performance of them all when you are the least evil and sluggish Begin the day constantly with thoughts of God III. Be very reall serious and substantial with God in them IV. Indeavour to feel all duties in your heart inlivening enlarging infleming your affections These be duties of most importance and consequence commodity and comfort to the soul because they properly appear at and reach at the souls good and caelestial happiness to train up a soul of a Believer for heaven CHAP. V. FOrtifie your self every morning against your special lusts to which you are by nature most prone or shall be most tempted be it pride passion covetousness c. This must be done four waies As I. By arguments and holy reasonings within your selves drawn fom the sad effects thereof as disprofit discomfort disgrace c. to discover the unreasonableness of your sin and make your soul ashamed of it For instance Shall I be proud Then I am sure to fall and God will count me for his enemie for God resisteth the proud ●am 4 6. Shall I be angry If I let passion in I cannot keep satan out Ephes 4 26 27. I shall grieve thereby the holy spirit of God Ephes 4 30 31. Shall I be covetous I cannot but be very sinful sith the love of money is the root of all evil 1 Tim 6 10. II. By pondring in your minds precepts in the Book of God against such sins judgments threatned or inflicted Prov 6 23 24. on proud Herod Acts 12 23. voluptuous Dives Luke 16 28. churl●●h Na●a● 1 Sam 25 38. III. By applying promises of mortification close to your hearts as a plaister to the sore for subduing your iniquity Mic 7 19. Rom 6 14. IV. By drawing vertue from Christs death into the soul which hath in it a killing force of sin Rom. 6 4 107. Phi. 4 10. CHAP. VI. GEt your heart strongly fixt on God by trusting on him Psal 112 7. and submitting to him 1 Sam 3 18. against all the fears cares double trialls affliction of every day for sufficient to the day is the evill thereof Mat 6 34. This must be done five waies I. Be prudent to foresee your personal tryals and troubles what ever they are like to be Prov 22 3. II Go hide and lay up your self in God run unto his name for God is a work of habitation to which a poor soul may continually resort God will give commandment to save him Psal 71 3. 1 ●et 4 19. III. Especially commit that ver thing to God put it into his hands whatsoever you desire to keep or fear to loose 2 Tim 1 12. be it life liberty name friends maintenance c. what you would have resolved if it be a doubt Psal 37 5. or supply'd if it be a want removed if it be a